THE Moscow announced today that it recovered Ukrainian ID cards and tattooed human limbs from the crash site of the Russian military transport plane. Moscow and Kiev blame each other for the crash of the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 Air Force which happened on Tuesday in the border region of Belgorod.
Moscow accuses Kiev of shooting down the plane, killing all 74 on boardincluding 65 Ukrainian military prisoners who were to be exchanged for Russian prisoners. Yesterday the Russian Investigative Committee announced that the Russian transport aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missilewhich was launched from Ukraine.
Kiev has neither confirmed nor denied that its forces shot down the plane and stressed that there is no evidence for the identities of the passengers on the plane. He disputed Moscow's claims and called for an international investigation. Russia's Investigative Committee reported that human organs were collected and sent for genetic analysis, and some of them bore distinctive tattoos like those of Ukrainian prisoners interrogated by Russia.
The Commission emphasized that evidence collected also included “identities of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the crash, confirming their identity, as well as accompanying documents from the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service”. Russian authorities have exclusive access to the crash site and Moscow's claims and accounts cannot be verified by other independent sources.
Ukraine rejected a Russian claim that it had received a warning that a plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners would be flying over the Belgorod region at the time of the crash. He also pointed to inconsistencies in an alleged list of the names of 65 Ukrainians published in Russian media, saying some of them were soldiers who had already been repatriated in a previous prisoner exchange.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today he was unaware that any official list had been published. Asked whether Russia will provide the UN Security Council and other international organizations with evidence that Ukraine shot down the plane, Peskov replied: “I have nothing to add yet. The investigators are working, decisions will be made after the investigators get all the necessary information.” Russian state media reported that the black boxes recovered from the plane were handed over to a special defense ministry laboratory in Moscow and investigators they are already processing them.
Putin: The Russian plane that crashed was shot down by Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the Russian military aircraft that crashed near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday was shot down by Ukrainian air defenseseither intentionally or accidentally.
Putin stressed that the results of the Russian authorities' investigation would be published within two to three days. but preliminary results show that the missiles they shot down the aircraft were American or French.
Source: News Beast
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